Definition of Ripener

1. Noun. Any chemical compound used to promote ripening. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ripener

1. one that ripens [n -S] - See also: ripens

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ripener

riparious
ripazepam
ripcord
ripcords
ripe
ripe(p)
ripe cataract
ripe olive
ripeck
ripecks
riped
ripely
ripen
ripen up
ripened
ripener (current term)
ripeners
ripeness
ripenesses
ripening
ripenings
ripens
riper
ripers
ripes
ripest
ripidolite
ripidolites
ripieni
ripienist

Literary usage of Ripener

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Records Relating to the Early History of Boston by Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept (1894)
"Robinson and Mary his Margaret daughter of John ripener and Ruth his Wife, Thomas Son of James Robinson and Patience his Wife, John Son of Richard ..."

2. Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of (1911)
"Boyd cream ripener, Farrington pasteurizer with retarder, Ames moisture test, 60 gal. starter can, trunnion style, 300 gal. Wizard agitator, 24 bottle ..."

3. The Book of Butter: A Text on the Nature, Manufacture and Marketing of the by Edward Sewall Guthrie (1918)
"The first vat pasteurizer after the Potts machine, and used more extensively than the Potts apparatus, was the Jensen Vertical Pasteurizer and ripener l ..."

4. The Book of Butter: A Text on the Nature, Manufacture and Marketing of the by Edward Sewall Guthrie (1918)
"The first vat pasteurizer after the Potts machine, and used more extensively than the Potts apparatus, was the Jensen Vertical Pasteurizer and ripener ..."

5. The Mythology of the Aryan Nations by George William Cox (1887)
"It was otherwise with Mars, a god who, worshipped originally as the ripener of fruits and grain, was afterwards from the accident of his name invested with ..."

6. Milk, Cheese and Butter: A Practical Handbook on Their Properties and the by John Oliver (1894)
"It does not serve to put such ripener into the milk to-day at half-an-hour before the coagulating process commences, and to-morrow at only two minutes ..."

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